Unfiltered. Unapologetic. Older - but arguably not wiser - Lancaster gets back to basics in this hilarious essay collection about everything from taking community policing classes to accidentally getting stoned with her waiter after a fancy dinner. These are the tales she'd tell if she met you in a bar... if she weren't too lazy to put on pants and go to a bar. Offering advice ranging from how to remain happily married to a man who refuses to blow his damn nose already to not creating An Incident at the cheese counter during an attempt at Whole30, she's you, only louder. As she details the chaos that will surely ensue if she has to learn to operate one more television remote control, you'll want to settle in and pour yourself a tall one. Because what's more fun than hearing a friend share her favorite stories?
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Ms. Lancaster returns to memoirs and doesn't dissapoint.
**Notice: The below isn't so much a review as it is a pen-pal letter to one of my favorite writers. My actual review is that this book is 5-star laugh out loud fun with stories from real life that will draw you in and make you feel like you are best friends with Ms. Lancaster. I have read many other books in this memoir/life stories/look-at-my-crazy-take-on-things genre, but Ms. Lancaster does it better than anyone. This is a great summer/beach/travel read that will make you sad when it's done because you will want more. Way to Go Jen! Excellent job.** "Dear Jen - I would happily sit in a bar with you and listen to your stories all day. Thank you for returning to your memoir roots [although don't give up on the fiction - see recent review for 'Best of Enemies' (and CAN NOT wait for 'The Gatekeepers' (although after learning what the source material is, and having a teen daughter, my heart hurts))] and giving us a glimpse into Jennsylvania and how you live in it with such wit, sarcasm, cynicism, and heart I just know we would be 'BFFs' (& TTF's). My favorite bits are the Whole30 chapter (having done one in February - Valentine's Day just isn't the same w/out wine and chocolate cake to go with my grass fed steak), the Mom's weekend chapter (I will get to experience my first Mom's Weekend at my alma mater this spring with my daughter and BFFs from college who also have kids at the same school), explaining how you become the 'Jen Lancaster Show' when nervous (pretty sure my husband would say I do the same), and the Yacht Rock discussion. [Having discovered that channel last year on Sirius changes the summer vibe entirely. How is it that I can remember every word to a song I haven't heard in 30+ years, yet can't remember what I left a room for w/out having to go back in said room and think really hard? & P.S. - Miller High Life Is.The.Best.Summer.Beer] So to my point with all the parentheses and brackets, is that your stories are so relatable it is like we are reading...
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